Scanning Your Code for Vulnerabilities using ECR Container Scanning

In this lesson, I’ll show you a feature that can assist in finding potential problems within your docker containers. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you should have a good understanding of the following: 

• The Scanning Feature in the Elastic Container Registry 

• Enabling automatic scanning and evaluating the results of the scans 

• Creating a docker container and pushing it to ECR

Intended Audience

• If you are a DevOps Engineer, a SysAdmin or a software developer with a security-first approach, this lesson is for you 

Prerequisites

Some useful knowledge to have before starting includes: 

• Building Docker containers 

• ECS service in AWS 

• Basic concepts of IT Security